Just when Wanyan Xiebao had a premonition that something bad was going to happen, the Song army's bombardment suddenly stopped, but the battlefield was still noisy and chaotic. Neat shouts, rumbling hoofbeats, chaotic calls and wails, and the frightened neighs of horses were all mixed together.
Wanyan Xiebao, who knew he was going to do something bad, was just thinking about whether to withdraw his troops and run away, when he saw several people carrying a rather grown-up man and flying out of the already chaotic Han'er Army formation, towards him. The edge is coming.
Several Jurchen cavalry responsible for supervising the battle were still faithfully performing their duties. Pegasus went over to try to stop them, but the guys carrying the men shouted in Jurchen dialect: "The Golden Sword Prince Consort is injured, the Golden Sword Prince Consort is injured." ..."
Wanyan Xiebao also heard it, and quickly rode forward and rushed to those few people. After a closer look, the man they were carrying was indeed Wanyan Zonggou, the prince-in-law with the golden sword. Zong Gou's eyes were closed, his face was pale, and he was unconscious, but Xie Bao didn't see where the wound was?
"Where are you injured? Is it important?" Wanyan Xiabao asked.
A veteran carrying Wanyan Zonggou replied: "The prince-in-law fell off the horse first, and then was kicked in the crotch by a frightened war horse. He fainted from the pain... I don't know if he was kicked badly?"
"What?" Wanyan Xiebao took a sharp breath and kicked his life with his horse's hooves... How can it be better? Even if her life is saved, her vitality will be cut off. What will my aunt do in the future?
"Quickly, carry it to the camp to find a medical officer for treatment..." At this point, Wanyan Xiebao had no choice but to have people carry Wanyan Zonggou into the camp for rescue. . No matter what, let’s save your life first!
After asking people to carry Zong Gou back, Wanyan Xiebao called a few more soldiers and ordered: "Go quickly and send an order to Kong Yanzhou...order him to temporarily command the Han'er army, and stabilize it first for me. Wait for my order!"
Several soldiers left in response, and Wanyan Xiabao himself turned his horse around and ran back to the Jurchen cavalry formation. Before he could take a closer look at the latest situation on the battlefield, there were roars coming one after another in front of him!
Xie Bao quickly stood up straight in the stirrups, stretched his neck and looked forward, and found that it was Song Jun who was bombed this time!
It turned out that the sixteen infantry formations of the Song Army had already rumbled into action, pressing towards the formation of the Jin soldiers and Han'er troops that had just suffered a burst of shelling. The phalanx of the Jin Bing and Han'er Army was stabilized by Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin. It seemed that the Song Army's tubular firearms were not as powerful as imagined - after all, Yue Fei only had 16 casserole cannons, and he was also the first It was the first time that the casserole artillery was used in actual combat. I had little experience, so I only fired 10 rounds of salvos before letting the infantry attack.
The Jin soldiers and Han'er troops who had stabilized their formation discovered that the Song army's infantry was coming up, and immediately began to use tip cannons to fire bombs to bombard the approaching Song army... But the tip cannons were difficult to aim. The cannon is a deflection weapon and cannot shoot directly at the target, so it can only be aimed by adjusting the range and changing the direction. Changing the direction is relatively easy, but adjusting the range is troublesome.
The tip cannon is just a trebuchet. There is no way to increase or decrease the firing angle. The firing range can only be changed by changing the grenade bag (the grenade bag is long enough to shoot farther) and increasing or decreasing the number of people pulling the rope. However, this method of adjusting the range is very unreliable, and it often takes many test shots to find the correct direction. This kind of weapon is fine for attacking immobile castles and camps, but not for dealing with movable targets... There is no way to aim at all, you can only aim at a fixed distance and wait for the enemy to come together. Come up, and then play a so-so round or two and that's it.
Of course, you can also fire randomly, waste ammunition, and create some smoke and noise to embolden yourself... For example, the Jin Bing Han'er Army is doing such a thing now!
The kettle weighing seven or eight kilograms was lit on fire (sometimes forgetting to light it) and thrown out randomly. Only less than a third of it exploded...the rest fell on the Waiting for Song Jun to pick it up on the grass!
That thing is made of copper! It is also filled with expensive gunpowder - although the formula of Jinguo's gunpowder is wrong and the purity is not high, as long as you add some high-purity fire salt and make it into granular gunpowder, it can still be used as a explosive charge. of.
Seeing the expensive bombs being thrown out randomly by cannons, most of them had not exploded yet, and among the exploded bombs, only a few had caused damage to the Song Army infantry who were advancing in formation. The fat flesh on Wanyan Xiabao's face was shaking with anger.
How expensive is that fried pot?
You guys just throw it out casually like this... Isn't this too wasteful?
When Wanyan Xiebao was worried about money, the Han'er army commanded by Kong Yanzhou and Liu Lin had already started shooting arrows. Although their bomb throws were a mess, their arrows shot just fine!
This group of Han soldiers is the foundation of the Song army on Jingdong Road. Except for the addition of cannons and explosive pot soldiers, the rest of the equipment and tactics are the same as the traditional Song army. They rely on bows and arrows to survive, and are also equipped with a large number of divine arm bows.
However, the number of Han soldiers that Wanyan Zonggou brought to the front line of Montenegro was only a mere 8,000. After deducting the general's personal soldiers, explosive artillery and a small number of light cavalry, there were only 6,000 infantry soldiers left. Now Another hollow square formation was set up (because Yue Fei had a lot of cavalry, and the Jin soldiers and cavalry supervising the battle would not attack easily, so these Han soldiers could only use the square formation to protect themselves), so there were only a thousand in each direction. Five hundred people, 80% of whom are archers, only have 1,200 bows (including divine arm bows). Facing the 8,000-strong attacking force of 16 infantry battalions sent by Yue Fei, these 1,200 bows can The firepower output is really a bit weak...
The imperial army led by Yue Fei himself was an elite soldier of the emperor, Su Wei Zhao Kai, and had a high armor rate. Many of the soldiers among them had already been equipped with strong cold-forged armor!
These warriors wearing cold-forged armor are now holding strong large shields and walking at the front of the team to resist the wooden feather arrows shot by the god's arm bow. The warrior walking behind raised the side card hanging on his left arm to protect his head and face. He just moved forward with his head covered and did not use a bow or arrow to fight back.
The sixteen square formations of the Song Army maintained an orderly formation and kept walking at a walking speed, ignoring the feather arrows and wooden feather arrows shot by their opponents...even if someone was hit by an arrow from time to time. Fall to the ground.
As these soldiers of the Song Army advanced, they shouted slogans to the rumbling drums: "Kill...the gold thieves! Divide...the fields!"
It has become a common practice for the Northern Song Dynasty army to kill gold thieves in exchange for land... They are just fighting for the land!
What was allocated to the Laofu soldiers this time was the land of Yinzhou, Xiazhou, and Youzhou. According to Zhao Kai's plan, after winning the Battle of Heishan, Xiao Heda's army will move to Heishan. (The current Dingnan Army is mainly composed of Khitan herdsmen and militia, and of course they have to go to the grassland to settle down), so the land of Yin, Xia, and Youzhou can be divided...
As the Song Army's infantry phalanx got closer and closer, Wanyan Xiebao knew that the Han'er Army's formation in front would soon face an attack from the Xiaozhuke... They couldn't withstand it!
"Let the men prepare to charge into battle!"
Wanyan Xiebao still had a way. His way was to force the Han'er Army to drag the opponent into a melee... and then he launched 4,000 Jurchen cavalry to attack the Song Army's flank and rear from the right wing!
He would lead the cavalry to charge all the way from the back of the Song army. Then, before the Song army's cavalry launched a counterattack, he would wade through the Yellow River and the North River and evacuate the battlefield...
But as soon as Wanyan Xiebao gave the order, Meng An Qianhu, a man on the side, shouted: "Supervisor... I'm afraid I won't be able to charge! The Song cavalry is coming!"
"What?"
Wanyan Xiebao quickly turned his head and looked to the left, only to find that the Song cavalry had quietly moved to his left wing while the infantry on both sides were fighting lively to attract his attention, and... .And with those dozen big tubes!
Those barrels are placed on a specially designed two-wheeled vehicle (gun mount). They can be transferred immediately by hooking up the draft horse, which is extremely maneuverable!
At this time, Wanyan Xiebao had discovered that the Song Army's "Zongzi Soldiers" were deploying a "Zongzi Formation" less than two miles away from him. He was probably going to "hurt people with their cannons" again!
We can't just wait for the package to come up!
"Supervisor, retreat... We can't let the Song Dynasty's magic weapon hurt our son!"
Some Jurchen generals have already been frightened by the "tongzi magic weapon"!
"Supervisor, we can't withdraw... Once we withdraw, the Han'er Army in front will definitely collapse!"
There are also those who are clear-headed. The 4,000 Jurchen cavalry on the battlefield are supervising the battle. If they are going to escape, what will happen to the Han'er army in front?
"Supervisor, if you fight with the Song people, you will only get a beating from them..."
This is bloody!
Wanyan Xianbao took a look and found out that it was a yellow-headed Jurchen, also named Wanyan (Yellow-headed Jurchen Huosu Guanbu), who was his distant relative.
"Okay!" Wanyan Xiebao nodded and said to the yellow-headed Jurchen named Wanyan, "The people with you will charge first... I will charge after you finish!"
"Got the order!"
This yellow-headed girl is really fierce and tough. She is really not afraid of cannons! After receiving the order, he flew away, summoned more than a thousand cavalry under his command, organized the team a little, and rushed towards the 16 cannons that had just been deployed!
This guy took the lead and rushed to the front. As he rushed back, he muttered: "Om, Chicken Binding Danamo..."
I don't know if his spell worked, but the 16 "box magic weapons" seemed to be mute. Seeing thousands of Jurchen cavalry roaring in, none of them could fire!
Bodhisattva bless you!
Wanyan Xiebao, who was standing in the stirrups at the rear and watching the formation, prayed secretly in his heart. When he saw the "Zong Zi Magical Weapon" was muted, he felt excited... Get closer, get closer, and rush forward. Come forward!
At this moment, the 16 "dumb" cylinders suddenly shook together, spitting out clouds of white smoke, and then retreated back with a deafening noise...then Wanyan leaned forward to protect him. He saw a scene that made him unbelievable!
The charging Jurchen cavalry was actually swept down by a large number of people and horses!
